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Vinony

suavity

noun

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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From Middle English suavite, suavitee, suavyte, from Middle French suavité and its etymon Latin suāvitās.

  1. The quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind; agreeableness; pleasantness

    “suavity of manners”

    “suavity of language, conversation, or address”

  2. The quality of being suave.

    “Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like Macavity, There never was a Cat of such deceitfulness and suavity.”

  3. Sweetness or agreeableness to the senses, especially of taste and odour.

    “Whan this ſayd monument diſcouered was / Suche a ſuauite and fragrant odoure / Aſcended from the corps by ſingular grace / Paſſyng all worldly ſwetnes and ſauour / That all there present that day and hour / Suppoſed they had ben / in the felicite / Of erthely paradiſe / without ambiguite.”